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Radical history online – a list of collections

June 11, 2018 hatfulofhistory

Communist Party of Australia’s Rupert Lockwood on the Common Market (c.1961)

March 31, 2018 hatfulofhistory

The Poll Tax ‘Riot’: Thatcher, the Met and its aftermath

May 22, 2017 hatfulofhistory

Archives of political extremism in Australia: A short guide

April 2, 2017 hatfulofhistory

Archiving the left – CPGB’s ‘Racism: How to Combat It’ (1978)

February 27, 2017 hatfulofhistory

ASIO memo on Germaine Greer from 1971

January 21, 2017 hatfulofhistory

Some highlights from the CIA’s recent document dump online

January 10, 2017 hatfulofhistory

Policing football crowds and the aftermath of Hillsborough: What the new Thatcher papers reveal, pt 2

December 31, 2016January 5, 2017 hatfulofhistory

Policing Acid House Parties in 1989: What the new Thatcher Government papers reveal

November 4, 2016March 11, 2020 hatfulofhistory

Orgreave is not merely history, but an important historical incident that needs to be fully investigated

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Me on the Bunker Daily podcast
New piece on history of RCP/Spiked in The Guardian
Today’s right-wing talking points resurrect yesterday’s fascist tropes
Toppled statues and the free speech culture war
Joe Strummer, Class War and Rock Against the Rich

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Me on the Bunker Daily podcast
Yesterday I was interviewed by Dorian Lynskey for the Bunker Daily podcast about my book and the history of ‘no platforming’. You can listen to me talking here.
New piece on history of RCP/Spiked in The Guardian
This is just a quick post to let you all know that The Guardian published a piece by myself on the history of the Revolutionary Communist Party and Spiked, via the journal Living Marxism. You can read the piece here. I am going to commence a larger project on the history of the Revolutionary Communist Party, […]
Today’s right-wing talking points resurrect yesterday’s fascist tropes
Last weekend, The Independent published a piece by myself on how the contemporary hard right are reusing fascist tropes from the 1930s. Below is a longer version of that piece with links added. As public disorder has swept across the United States in protest against police brutality, many on the right have blamed ‘antifa’ for […]
Toppled statues and the free speech culture war
The Black Lives Matters movement spilled into discussion of history and the popular memory of empire over the weekend, when the statue of Edward Colston, an eighteenth century slave merchant, was toppled into the water in Bristol by protestors. This provided momentum across Britain, Europe and North America to remove other statues, building on previous […]
Joe Strummer, Class War and Rock Against the Rich
In 1988, Joe Strummer embarked on a tour across Britain called ‘Rock Against the Rich’. The tour was endorsed and organised by the anarchist group, Class War. Ian Bone, former leading member of Class War, has published this on the history of the tour. Amongst a collection of newspapers and journals that I recently obtained, […]

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